Santa Muerta Cemetery Dust
Many people know Chavela Vargas as Frida Kahlo’s lover but she is so much more. She is an artist who uses her voice to evoke a fathomless well of emotions - most especially when she sings La Llorona. I played this live performance to bring me closer to the spirit of Santa Muerta, who just like La Llorona stands at the threshold between living and the dead. Listen to the heartache. Listen and breathe as you accept my scythe’s cut.
Santa Muerte turns no one away and protects all her children. She is credited with many miracles and is a great comfort to her devotees. Santa Muerte presides over death and so we all come to Her eventually.
I infused my intention to honor our beloved dead while I also listened to the wisdom of tobacco, sage, rosemary, marigold, rosehips as I blended my Magick into Santa Muerta Cemetery Dust for Mt. Shasta November Goddess kits.
I am a Ritual Herbalist. I play with the energy of herbs until together we create Magick in a thing, an idea or action.
A portion of this blend comes from an herbal blessing from the ceremony of life for my best friend Melinda. I emptied all her dried herbs into a large bowl, added tobacco to honor her Cherokee blood and asked people attending the ceremony to bring herbs from their garden or even tea bags and add their plant medicine to the bowl. Our friend Nila drummed while Daryl sang blessing songs over the herbs, just as Melinda and I had witnessed at the Kizh Nation Tobacco Blessing ceremony many years before when the drum was as big as VW bug. Everyone got some of the herbal blend to take with them to place on their altar or sprinkle like ashes on a place that was sacred to them and Melinda.
Over tombstones and graves, you can sprinkle this blend of tobacco, rose & marigold, which are sacred to Santa Muerte, a Mexican folk saint who is also known as the Skeleton Saint, plus rosemary for remembrance, sage for purification and a whole lot of Magick. Ritual isn’t just for manifesting spells. Ritual helps us feel into the sacredness of difficult emotions and process what feels too big to understand. Rituals give us a path to walk when our feet don’t know where to go.
